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	== Legacy and honours ==		== Legacy and honours ==
	Unnikrishnan Nair published over ten books, including two biographies of [[Vallathol Narayana Menon]] and [[:ml:കുട്ടമത്ത് കുന്നിയൂർ കുഞ്ഞിക്കൃഷ്ണക്കുറുപ്പ്\|Mahakavi Kuttamath]].<ref name="List of works">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUNairBooks.htm \|title=List of works \|date=2019-04-05 \|website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi \|access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> It was he who translated three plays of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] viz. ''Visarjan'', ''Chira Kumar Sabha'' and ''Dakghar'' into Malayalam which were compiled as the first volume of the series, ''Tagorinte Natakangal''.<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book\|author=D. S. Rao\|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA103\|year=2004\|publisher=Sahitya Akademi\|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7\|pages=103–}}</ref> Besides, he translated three more Bengali works, ''Vinodini'' of Tagore<ref name="Vinodini">{{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24664&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Vinodini \|last=Tagore \|first=Rabindranath~~; Author~~ \|~~last2~~=Unnikrishnan Nair \|~~first2~~=V~~; Tr~~ \|date=1988}}</ref> and ''Rajani'' and ''Kapalakundala'' of [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]].<ref name="Kapaalakundala">{{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Kapaalakundala \|~~last~~=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee~~; Author~~ \|~~last2~~=Unnikrishnan Nair \|~~first2~~=V~~; Translator~~ \|date=1989 \|location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}</ref> He presided over the Kerala Kala Parishad during 1954–56 and sat in the executive councils of the [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] and Kerala Sahitya Parishad.<ref name="Lal1992" />		Unnikrishnan Nair published over ten books, including two biographies of [[Vallathol Narayana Menon]] and [[:ml:കുട്ടമത്ത് കുന്നിയൂർ കുഞ്ഞിക്കൃഷ്ണക്കുറുപ്പ്\|Mahakavi Kuttamath]].<ref name="List of works">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUNairBooks.htm \|title=List of works \|date=2019-04-05 \|website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi \|access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> It was he who translated three plays of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] viz. ''Visarjan'', ''Chira Kumar Sabha'' and ''Dakghar'' into Malayalam which were compiled as the first volume of the series, ''Tagorinte Natakangal''.<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book\|author=D. S. Rao\|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA103\|year=2004\|publisher=Sahitya Akademi\|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7\|pages=103–}}</ref> Besides, he translated three more Bengali works, ''Vinodini'' of Tagore<ref name="Vinodini">{{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24664&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Vinodini \|author-last=Tagore \|author-first=Rabindranath \|translator-last=Unnikrishnan Nair \|translator-first=V \|date=1988}}</ref> and ''Rajani'' and ''Kapalakundala'' of [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]].<ref name="Kapaalakundala">{{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Kapaalakundala \|author=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee \|translator-last1=Unnikrishnan Nair \|translator-first1=V \|date=1989 \|location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}</ref> He presided over the Kerala Kala Parishad during 1954–56 and sat in the executive councils of the [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] and Kerala Sahitya Parishad.<ref name="Lal1992" />

	The Government of Madras honoured Nair with their annual award in 1952 and he received the Puthelan Award in 1977. In 1989, he was inducted as a [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship\|distinguished fellow]] by the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Fellows/Html/HonoraryList.htm \|title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship \|date=2019-04-06 \|website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi \|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>		The Government of Madras honoured Nair with their annual award in 1952 and he received the Puthelan Award in 1977. In 1989, he was inducted as a [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship\|distinguished fellow]] by the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Fellows/Html/HonoraryList.htm \|title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship \|date=2019-04-06 \|website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi \|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>
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	* {{Cite book \|url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=213729&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Vinodini \|last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V \|date=1988 \|publisher=Kozhikode mathrubhumi \|location=Kozhikode mathrubhumi}}		* {{Cite book \|url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=213729&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Vinodini \|last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V \|date=1988 \|publisher=Kozhikode mathrubhumi \|location=Kozhikode mathrubhumi}}
	* {{Cite book \|url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=70701&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Ravikiranangal: Tagore kavithakal \|last=Unnikrishnan Nair \|first=V. \|last2=Unnikrishnan Nair \|first2=V. \|date=1968 \|publisher=S.P.C.S \|location=Kottayam}}		* {{Cite book \|url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=70701&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Ravikiranangal: Tagore kavithakal \|last=Unnikrishnan Nair \|first=V. \|last2=Unnikrishnan Nair \|first2=V. \|date=1968 \|publisher=S.P.C.S \|location=Kottayam}}
	* {{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Kapaalakundala \|last=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee~~; Author~~ \|~~last2~~=Unnikrishnan Nair \|~~first2~~=V~~; Translator~~ \|date=1989 \|location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}		* {{Cite book \|url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair \|title=Kapaalakundala \|last=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee \|translator-last1=Unnikrishnan Nair \|translator-first1=V. \|date=1989 \|location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}
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'''Vasupurath Unnikrishnan Nair ''' (9 January 1893 – 19 May 1985) was an Indian writer of [[Malayalam literature]], best known as a contemporary and associate of [[Vallathol Narayana Menon]]. He was the author of a number of books which include ''Tagorinte Nadakangal'', the translation of three plays written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] into Malayalam. Nair honoured by the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] with the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship|distinguished fellowship]] in 1981.

== Biography ==
[[File:Madras Christian college Chennai - gate1.jpg|thumb|left|Madras Christian College]]
V. Unnikrishnan Nair was born on 9 January 1893 at [[Pallikkunnu]], a small village in the present-day [[Kannur district]] of the south Indian state of [[Kerala]] to Sankaranveettil Rama Kurup and Madhavi Amma.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUNairgraphy.htm |title=Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal |date=2019-04-05 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> After early schooling at [[Tirur]] Lower Primary School, he completed high school education at two schools in [[Ottapalam]] and Kannur and joined the [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]] from where he completed the pre-university course. Subsequently, he [[Honours degree|graduated with honours]] from [[Madras Christian College]] and returned to Brennen College as a faculty. However, his stay there lasted only two months as he was appointed at the Central Revenue Department in [[Chennai]] in 1920.<ref name="Lal1992">{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4428|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|pages=4428–}}</ref> He held various posts to reach the position of the deputy director of inspection and when the commercial taxation department was established in [[Odisha]], he was selected to head the department. He superannuated from service in 1950.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" />

Nair, who was married to Gauri Amma, died on 19 May 1985, at the age of 92, at [[Kozhikode]].<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" />

== Legacy and honours ==
Unnikrishnan Nair published over ten books, including two biographies of [[Vallathol Narayana Menon]] and [[:ml:കുട്ടമത്ത് കുന്നിയൂർ കുഞ്ഞിക്കൃഷ്ണക്കുറുപ്പ്|Mahakavi Kuttamath]].<ref name="List of works">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUNairBooks.htm |title=List of works |date=2019-04-05 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> It was he who translated three plays of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] viz. ''Visarjan'', ''Chira Kumar Sabha'' and ''Dakghar'' into Malayalam which were compiled as the first volume of the series, ''Tagorinte Natakangal''.<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book|author=D. S. Rao|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA103|year=2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7|pages=103–}}</ref> Besides, he translated three more Bengali works, ''Vinodini'' of Tagore<ref name="Vinodini">{{Cite book |url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24664&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Vinodini |last=Tagore |first=Rabindranath; Author |last2=Unnikrishnan Nair |first2=V; Tr |date=1988}}</ref> and ''Rajani'' and ''Kapalakundala'' of [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]].<ref name="Kapaalakundala">{{Cite book |url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kapaalakundala |last=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; Author |last2=Unnikrishnan Nair |first2=V; Translator |date=1989 |location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}</ref> He presided over the Kerala Kala Parishad during 1954–56 and sat in the executive councils of the [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] and Kerala Sahitya Parishad.<ref name="Lal1992" />

The Government of Madras honoured Nair with their annual award in 1952 and he received the Puthelan Award in 1977. In 1989, he was inducted as a [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship|distinguished fellow]] by the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Fellows/Html/HonoraryList.htm |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship |date=2019-04-06 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
=== Biographies ===
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* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215707&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Vallathol |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1962 |publisher=Mathrubhumi |location=Mathrubhumi}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=79327&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Mahakavi Kuttamathu |last=Unnikrishnan Nair |first=V. |date=1969 |publisher=Mathrubhumi |location=Calicut}}
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=== Other works ===
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* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215710&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kalidasahredayam |last=Unnikrishnan nair. V |date=1964 |publisher=Mathrubhumi |location=Mathrubhumi}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215079&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Rajayogini |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1952 |publisher=Mangalodayam |location=Mangalodayam}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215080&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kaladippadukal |last=Unnikrishnan nair. V |date=1951 |publisher=Mangalodayam |location=Mangalodayam}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215077&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Urvvasi |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1952 |publisher=Mangalodayam |location=Mangalodayam}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=210611&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Ravirasmikal |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1954 |publisher=Kamalalaya |location=Kamalalaya}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=203575&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kathamalika |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1098 |publisher=B. V. Book depot |location=B. V. Book depot, Trichur}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=62249&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Sathyavathy |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1972}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=225644&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kalidasa Hridayam |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1964}}
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=== Translations ===
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* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=220173&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Tagorinde Nadakangal |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1967 |publisher=S P C S |location=S P C S}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=213729&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Vinodini |last=Unnikrishnan Nair. V |date=1988 |publisher=Kozhikode mathrubhumi |location=Kozhikode mathrubhumi}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=70701&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Ravikiranangal: Tagore kavithakal |last=Unnikrishnan Nair |first=V. |last2=Unnikrishnan Nair |first2=V. |date=1968 |publisher=S.P.C.S |location=Kottayam}}
* {{Cite book |url=http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=24607&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520V.%2520Unnikrishnan%2520Nair |title=Kapaalakundala |last=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; Author |last2=Unnikrishnan Nair |first2=V; Translator |date=1989 |location=Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi Books}}
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== See also ==
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* [[List of Malayalam-language authors by category]]
* [[List of Malayalam-language authors]]
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{{Portal|India|Literature}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/CNAhmedMaulavi/Html/CNAhmedmaulavi.htm |title=Portrait commissioned by Kerala Sahitya Akademi |date=2019-04-05 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-05}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/PROFILES/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUnnikrishnanNair.htm |title=Conferring Fellowship |date=2019-04-06 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-06}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/PROFILES/VUnnikrishnanNair/Html/VUNairpage.htm |title=Handwriting |date=2019-04-06 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-06}}

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